Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Newsy Stuff – Award nominations!

The Season of award nominations is here! Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce on the 201st anniversary of the birth of Edgar AllanPoe, its nominees for the 2010 Edgar® Awards which honour the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2009.

Some of the nominees are as follows:-BEST NOVELThe Missing by Tim Gautreaux (Random House - Alfred A. Knopf)The Odds by Kathleen George (Minotaur Books) The Last Child by John Hart (Minotaur Books) Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston (Random House - Ballantine Books) Nemesis by Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett (HarperCollins) A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn (Simon & Schuster – Atria Books)

A full list of the nominations can be found here The Edgar® Awards will be presented to the winners at the 64th Gala Banquet, April 29, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

The nominations for the Dilys Awards have also been announced. The Dilys Awards are named after Dilys Winn who was the founder of the first specialty bookseller ofmystery books in the United States and are given annually by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association to the mystery title of the year which the member booksellers have most enjoyed selling.The nominations are:-The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyA Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. EllroyThe Dark Horse by Craig Johnson The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig LarssonThe Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville The Brutal Telling by Louise PennyThe Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan The Dilys Award will be given out at the at the Left Coast Crime mystery convention that is due to be held in Los Angeles, California, March 11-14, 2010.Congratulations to all the nominees.